Reaping the Whirlwind of Anglo-American Aggression

Reaping the Whirlwind of Anglo-American Aggression

While the media networks in the US and Europe  bombard us with images of what they call the “migrant crisis” or “refugee crisis” and even spent several days arguing what to call those thousands of people seeking entry into Europe, the one issue that is not discussed is WHY?

They present us with images of people pushing and shoving with police to try and board a train, a bus, anything to get across borders to countries in which they think they will have a future for themselves and their families, or whatever portion of their families that survive.

They present us with images of overcrowded boats landing in European ports bearing human cargo if they are lucky enough to make the crossing from the Middle East and North Africa.

For those who succumb in the perilous journey, they present images of tragic loss of life – drowned babies and adults washing up on Europe’s shores, suffocated victims of human trafficking on Europe’s highways – all with tear-jerking commentary invoking concern for the “humanitarian crisis”?

But, still, not a word on the most important issue: WHY is this exodus of desperation from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe and North America occurring? WHY is this “worst refugee crisis since World War II” as the networks and Anglo-American politicians describe what is happening, WHY is this happening?

Why are millions of people fleeing their homelands from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and other countries in that region of the world?

There is no outbreak of epidemic. There is no famine. There is no failure of crops due to lack of rainfall or some other effect of the assault on the global environment.

WHY?

WHY are these millions of people displaced and those in whose history there is the haunting memory of the holocausts, both of the Jews and of the African enslavement, now claiming calamity?

What is the new condition in the Middle East and North Africa which causes this situation?

Those who have sown the wind of big power military aggression to impose their version of “democracy” and secure their “interests” under the banner of a self-righteous coalition against “evil” are now sowing the whirlwind.

The US continues its longest war since Viet Nam in Iraq and Syria, comfortable in the notion that no American lives are at risk since there are “no boots on the ground”. The American people are told this war is good because their military is only engaged in air strikes. Or, better yet they are using un-manned drones to deploy their murderous payloads.

It is this America (super-power) led coalition against at one time non-existent “weapons of mass destruction” or claiming the right of might to impose upon ancient civilisations their version of “what is good” by removing dictators or “defeating terrorism” the perpetrators of which all have their genesis in the very Anglo-American intervention in that region.

When the US wanted to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan, they created the Taliban, Al Queda and various mercenary forces to further their own ambitions.

These “evil forces” created by the “righteous” seeking to impose their “solutions” on the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have evolved under the watchful eye of the coalition occupiers and anti-terrorist armies deployed in those countries.

Like Hitler’s “final solution”, the US-led “solution” to the problems in these countries crusading in the name of “moral superiority” has destroyed the fabric of these nations and unleashed untold human suffering that has led to the displacement of millions.

The victims of this episode of genocidal atrocity can no longer be contained in the “refugee camps” in neighbouring countries, so they are creating the “migrant crisis” in Europe.

All the while, the chief instigator of this human tragedy refuses to accept the victims of its intervention and imposition into its own borders citing fears of “terrorist infiltration” as its excuse.

The tragedy of the displacement of millions is not, as one local “international relations expert” said in one of today’s (Sunday 13 Sept) newspapers, is not the world’s problem.

It as an issue of the consequences of Anglo-American aggression against others and the responsibility for resolving it is theirs.

Clyde Weatherhead

Sunday, 13 September 2015